how can I use a variable in my Text field instead of html?

[Esstee]

I don't know if the title says much but, I am currently using anne rice
to convert some keywords, the output is pretty rediculous and in the process
of convincing the addon to do so I crashed Coranto several times.

So with this I think I'm using the anne rice way beyond its intended purpose.

Anyways I wanted to know if there was a way to end up using a TAG like a
BBcode or something in the Text field and then if I edited the field I would
always be seeing [img1] instead of the code the published story produced.

here is what I am doing at this time with anne rice:

original word:

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 [img1]

Replaced text:

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<table width="5" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td><a href="javascript:void(0);" onClick="window.open('/web/phpthmb/demo/phpThumb.demo.showpic.php?src=http://www.mysite.com/imgdata/news/article_images/<Field: CustomField_Text_image1>&title=This+is+a+small+picture', 'showpic1', 'width=640,height=480,resizable=no,status=no,menubar=no,toolbar=no,scrollbars=no');"><img src="/web/phpthmb/phpThumb.php?src=/imgdata/news/article_images/<Field: CustomField_Text_image1>&w=325" border="0"></a></td></tr><tr><td height="6"></td></tr><tr><td height="35"><div align="justify" class="newsroom_update"><Field: CustomField_img_caption1></div></td></tr></table>

Like I said I know I'm using the addon out of context but I don't have the
expertise to produce the equivalent using perl in my style but I think that
would be optimum.

your help is apreciated as always.

[Lumberjack]

Isn't this the same question as you posted in addon help? Anyway, it may be possible for you to set these things as custom variables, and just use <Field: CustomVariable1> in your styles... I don't know how that would affect your images, but I think you could probably set these varibles in cruser.pl (just a guess, never tried anything like that myself). I know you can set custom subroutines in there so... maybe it would work.

[Parahead]

Anyways I wanted to know if there was a way to end up using a TAG like a
BBcode or something in the Text field and then if I edited the field I would
always be seeing [img1] instead of the code the published story produced.

I have been thinking about a sort of BBCode addon myself. The Anne Rice addon substitutes data on submission, I have been thinking about doing the replacing at build time. This would slow down the build but would make life esier during "edit news". I don't know, maybe LumberJack, (who wanted a small project) is interested in doing this?